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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by eli on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:23PM (#27337472)
And 8 years later the fees no longer make it viable for even that niche use case.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by baby on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:43PM (#27339040)
What fee? Are you talking about a specific currency or all currencies? In Celo currently fees are 0.1 cent per transaction, for example.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by input_sh on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:58AM (#27341065)
I've never heard of a single physical item being sold for any other cryptocurrency, only Bitcoin.

How would a merchant of physical goods even know about something like Celo, whatever that is?

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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by baby on Monday May 31, 2021 @12:02PM (#27345389)
Adoption takes time.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by tuesdayrain on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:36PM (#27337580)
Surely you recognize that this is a bad faith argument? The average transaction fee today is around $8 USD. That's a small price to pay for knowing that a transaction is set in stone.
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Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry... by Clewza313 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:38PM (#27339802)
It's a pretty high price to pay for donuts though. Especially since it's kind of hard to reverse a donut transaction after you've eaten them.
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